Show HN: Hosty – Image/Text self-hosting for minimalists in PHP

by xrstf • 12 years ago

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xrstf4• 12 years ago

Some weeks ago, I got tired of using imgur for hosting screenshots and stuff, partially because I was trying to share work-related content and using a public site like imgur doesn't seem appropriate.

I then looked around for existing, simple self-hosting tools, but all I found where huge near-community apps like Gallery2, Coppermine, ownCloud or ownstagram (with commenting, rating, folders, tags, ...) or PHP scripts from before there was PHP 5.

Long story short: None of them fit my need, so I built my own. It's based on Silex (Symfony2's micro-framework sister) and Twig and only offers the bare minimum. Files are placed in the local filesystem, a database is not needed. Apache2 is the default supported webserver, but we have Hosty in production using nginx over SSL as well.

Uploading is only allowed for registered users (and users have to be configured in a config file), viewing is allowed to anyone having the link to a file. It's not intended to be a public file hosting service, so do not try to add some public register form or something like that ;-)

Hosty can be used inside a LAN without Internet access; no external resources are being used. It's published under MIT and deliberately doesn't add any promotional links or "Created by Hosty" footers.

Sir_Cmpwn• 12 years ago

You missed MediaCrush ;)

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

Building your own is easy and fun, though, I don't blame you.

FabianBeiner2• 12 years ago

Sometimes I’m missing the Good Ol’ Days. You know, when you where able to download some PHP files as a ZIP, extract them, maybe change some configuration and be done. You didn’t have to bother with a bunch of other tools just to get some script ready.

(This is, by the way, no offense to this project at all! I just couldn’t resist to write this.)

vld• 12 years ago

I agree. For such a simple script, requiring all these tools (npm, bower, composer, grunt), it just doesn't seem practical.

Is this how people develop and deploy PHP stuff nowadays?

okatsu2• 12 years ago

Aside from Composer (which is a good thing for managing dependencies), I'm not sure why you would think "this is how people develop and deploy PHP stuff nowadays". The author uses these tools out of choice, not convention. Just like some Ruby devs use Bower and others don't.

bombtrack3• 12 years ago

I agree with the other reply -- this isn't so much of an indictment of PHP, as it is front-end development in general.

Sure, to keep it simple you could download your JS and PHP deps once and bundle them all up in one nice zip. I think many apps provide a "dist" or "release" bundle (this one, in fact, does) in which you don't have to care about Composer, Bower or npm. However, to properly organize deps or define build processes for development, why not use some of the (frankly) common tools available?

It's funny how HN could see a simple unzip-and-go app and scoff "amateur hour hobby project". But if someone takes a more formal approach to their hobby app it can flip and scoff "over-engineered bloated setup".

krapp4• 12 years ago

For the life of me do not understand why anyone would require Node's package manager as a requirement for a PHP application.

One of the few strengths of PHP is that there doesn't have to be a "build process."

You don't even have to compile CSS and JS, really, but I guess people aren't comfortable with js or css which isn't machine generated. Fair enough - there are benefits to that, but as general practice, it's needless complexity.

bybjorn• 12 years ago

It's actually pretty pratical if you already have those tools installed.

xrstf4• 12 years ago

That's why I do provide pre-packaged ZIP files, which don't require you to have npm, grunt, bower or Composer. ;-)

FabianBeiner2• 12 years ago

As said, wasn’t at all about your project. But I’m glad you made this more clear. :)

iancarroll• 12 years ago

Hastebin (written in Node) is also cool if you intend on making it public - I put an instance up at https://paste.ian.sh and I use it every day.

relaxitup• 12 years ago

Looks good. Bepasty looks similar also, however not sure if it supports fully public url's.

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